About the Authors

Elisabet Zamora

Affiliations Heart Failure Unit, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Josep Lupón

Affiliations Heart Failure Unit, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Marta de Antonio

Affiliations Heart Failure Unit, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Joan Vila

Affiliations Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Disease Programme, IMIM-Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health, Barcelona, Spain

Amparo Galán

Affiliation Biochemistry Service, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Paloma Gastelurrutia

Affiliation Heart Failure Unit, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Agustín Urrutia

Affiliations Heart Failure Unit, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Antoni Bayes-Genis

abayesgenis@gmail.com

Affiliations Heart Failure Unit, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EZ AB JL. Performed the experiments: MDA JL AG AU. Analyzed the data: EZ JL JV PG AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG JV. Wrote the paper: EZ JL AB. Final approval of the version to be published: EZ JL MDA JV AG PG AU AB Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: EZ JL MDA JV AG PG AU AB.